Clifton Dobrich
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon (via Game 7)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolClifton Dobrich is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Seattle with over a decade of hands-on experience building reliable, secure systems across startups and large enterprises. He blends full-stack proficiency (TypeScript, Vue, React, Python, NestJS, Django) with strong SRE and DevOps chops, having driven availability improvements to 99.98% and CI/CD reliability to 98.9%. Clifton has led open-source program work and security automation at New Relic, boosting automated dependency/license detection from 19% to 81% and closing access-control gaps to 100% enforcement. He pairs deep media expertise—notably digital video encoding (H.264, Xvid) and computer vision—with pragmatic backend design for scalable SaaS and platform services. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and program-level leadership, he has repeatedly reduced costs and latency through instrumentation and process automation. Fluent in Japanese and with a background in linguistics and animation, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective to engineering problems.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.2, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.2 at University of Washington
Japanese, Russian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (141)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/new-relic-extension-pack
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
New Relic VS Code Extension Pack
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 month
vs-code-extensionvscodevscode-extensionvs-codeextension-pack
cdobrich/Windows-like-IntelliJ-keymap-for-macOS
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Generates a Windows-like keymap for JetBrains IDEs on macOS
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
windows-likekeymapwindowsjetbrains-idesjetbrains
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